Introduction
PART I: Believability: The Territory and the Tools
1: The Divine Marriage: Combining Believable Acting with Expressive
Singing
2: To Become or Not to Become: Using Yourself to Create a
Believable Character
3: Playing in the Moment: Using Improvisation to Be Believable
4: Judgements and Trust: Improving Your Concentration
PART II: Creating Your Character
5: Neither Right nor Wrong: Making Believable Character Choices
6: Your Character's Universe: Analyzing the Dramatic Structure of
Music-Theatre Pieces
7: Your Character's World: Fashioning a Theme Statement
8: Your Character's Heart's Desire: Fashioning Super-Objectives
9: Motivating Your Character's Actions: Fashioning Objectives and
Acting Beats
10: Your Character's Inner Voice: Fashioning Subtext
PART III: Preparing for Performances
11: Being Believable in Any Role on Any Stage: Heightening
12: Getting the Part: Auditioning
13: Getting Good: Rehearsing
14: Delivering a Believable Character: Performing
David Ostwald has directed over 170 productions of operas and plays in academic and professional venues both here and abroad. He has specialized in teaching acting to singers, in which capacity he was on the faculty at The Juilliard School and at SUNY Purchase, where he was head of the Opera Program for twelve years. He has also taught and directed in major summer opera training programs.
"[The book] has a great deal to offer to young professionals, as
well as college and serious high school students and I highly
recommend it to both teachers and students." --Carol Madill, Vocal
Music Instructor and Fine Arts Department Head, Wyalusing Valley
High School
"A fine text book...This is a well-designed systematic approach
which clarifies a sequence of steps one can follow to develop
convincing characters and interpretations in opera, musical
theater, art songs and auditions." --Sarah Oppenheim-Beggs, Mezzo
soprano, voice teacher, and choral director on Maui
"Singers and their teachers will benefit from this useful text that
details the process of bringing believable characters to the
stage." --Journal of Singing
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